GLAST Large Area Telescope Instrument Flight Software Flight Unit Design Review 16 September 2004 Secondary Boot Code (SBC) D.Wood Naval Research Laboratory / Praxis, Inc. Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

16 September 2004Flight Unit Peer Review - Secondary Boot Code 2 Secondary Boot Overview Primary boot handles initialization from power-on or reset to start of RTOS execution –Software contained in SUROM –No RTOS services available Secondary boot handles initialization from start of RTOS execution to application control of instrument –Secondary boot on SIU proceeds in response to a command from the ground. The SIU controls EPU secondary boot. –Software contained in EEPROM or delivered by file upload to primary boot –RTOS services available Secondary boot described in LAT-TD-02150LAT-TD-02150

16 September 2004Flight Unit Peer Review - Secondary Boot Code 3 SBC Requirements Configure and initialize VxWorks RTOS –VxWorks 5.5 kernel –BSP and drivers for RAD750 CPU board hardware Provide file system non-volatile storage –Small code object modules (variable length) –Small configuration objects (variable length) Load application object modules Call application initialization functions Report diagnostics and error from secondary boot process –Fatal errors reboot and leave behind information in boot diagnostics area

16 September 2004Flight Unit Peer Review - Secondary Boot Code 4 SBC Software Organization Package VXW contains VxWorks BSP –Constituent: vxw_flight - provides kernel, BSP, and drivers for RAD750 board accessories vxw_flight constituent also contains a small number of application modules statically linked with it –ZLIB/zlib_inflate, FILE/file_hdr –Package VXW also contains many BSP variants Development configurations run debugger, shell, networking, etc… Flight configuration is subset of development configurations Similar configurations available for COTS CPU boards Package SBC contains application loader –Constituent: sbc – provides application initialization

16 September 2004Flight Unit Peer Review - Secondary Boot Code 5 TFFS/EEPROM File System Architecture CPU Crate RAD750 (Software View)SIB (Hardware View) Applications Posix file callsVxWorks DosFs (FAT file system) RAM disk TFFS EEPROM driver (Secondary Boot Code) Managed by TFFS software EEPROM Bank 0 Managed by TFFS software EEPROM Bank 1 cPCI Interface Code written by LAT FSW VxWorks base product VxWorks layered product TFFS provides wear-leveling of EEPROM locations Multiple updates of the same file or file system meta-data is spread across all locations Provides access to raw EEPROM driver functions (memory dump, memory poke) Two independent file systems provided for every CPU EEPROM Driver manages interaction with EEPROM chips on SIB board Write programming and completion status Manages write lock and unlock of SIB EEPROM banks (Boot Code)

16 September 2004Flight Unit Peer Review - Secondary Boot Code 6 EEPROM Bank Header RTOS NVRAM VxWorks RTOS Executable Image (VXW/vxw_flight constituent) Secondary Boot Executable (SBC/sbc constituent) Secondary Boot Application Database Boot EEPROM Organization Database Header Number of Module File ID’s Module File ID’s Number of Initialization Functions Initialization Function Symbol Names and Parameters Defines layout of EEPROM Boot Files Contains network parameters for development environment

16 September 2004Flight Unit Peer Review - Secondary Boot Code 7 Application Initialization Create RAM disk file system partition Mount file system partitions Validate application database boot file Read list of application object module files Validate each object module file Inflate each object module file Invoke VxWorks dynamic loader for each object module file Read list of application initialization functions Call each application initialization function with parameters Examine status code returned by functions for fatal errors Report any errors in boot diagnostics area Reboot if error is fatal Otherwise, applications are now in control